Positive Friendship Quotes

A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand.

Les Brown

Friendship, Hands, Cute Friend

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Those that will always help a friend, will always have a friend.

Anthony D. Williams

Friendship, Helping

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I thank you for my friends, for those who understand me better than I understand myself. For those who know me at my worst, and still like me. For those who have forgiven me when I had no right to expect to be forgiven. Help me to be as true to my friends as I would wish them to be to me.

William Barclay

Friendship, Wish, Helping

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Finding an old friend is like finding a lost treasure.

Anthony D. Williams

Friendship, Old Friends, Treasure

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Your heart and my heart are very, very old friends.

Hafez

Friendship, Hate, Heart

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Friendship flourishes at the fountain of forgiveness.

William Arthur Ward

Friendship, Fountain

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When someone cares... it is easier to speak, it is easier to listen, it is easier to play, it is easier to work. When someone cares it is easier to laugh.

Susan Polis Schutz

Friendship, Play, Laughing

Susan Polis Schutz (1974). “Peace flows from the sky”, Blue Mountain Press

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May our house always be too small to hold all of our friends.

Myrtle Reed

Friendship, House, May

Myrtle Reed, Mary Badollet Powell (1911). “The Myrtle Reed Year Book: Epigrams and Opinions from the Writings and Sayings of Myrtle Reed”

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Drink in the beauty of friendship. In this world of constant change, we need the comfort of friendship more than ever before.

Susan Jeffers

Friendship, Comfort, Needs

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Of all the heavenly gifts that mortal men command What trusty treasure in the world can countervail a friend? What sweeter solace shall befall than one to find Upon whose breast thou may'st repose the secrets of thy mind

Nicholas Grimald

Friendship, Men, Secret

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With every true friendship, we build more firmly the foundations on which the peace of the whole world rests.

Mahatma Gandhi

Friendship, Peace, True Friend

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Friends, though absent, are still present.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Friendship, Absence, Absent Friends

Marcus Tullius Cicero (1855). “Cicero's Three books of offices, or moral duties: also his Cato Major, an essay on old age; Lælius, an essay on friendship; Paradoxes; Scipio's dream; and Letter to Quintus on the duties of a magistrate”, p.181

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Happy is the house that shelters a friend.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friendship, House, Shelter

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1341, Delphi Classics

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Each departed friend is a magnet that attracts us to the next world.

Jean Paul

Friendship, Sad, Departed

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Real friendship is shown in times of trouble; prosperity is full of friends.

Euripides

Friendship, Real, Army

Euripides (1958). “Euripides: Hecuba, translated by W. Arrowsmith. Andromache, translated by J. F. Nims. The Trojan women, translated by R. Lattimore. Ion, translated by R. F. Willetts”

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True friends visit us in prosperity only when invited, but in adversity they come without invitation.

Theophrastus

Friendship, Best Friend, True Friend

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Is my mother my friend? I would have to say, first of all she is my Mother, with a capital 'M'; she's something sacred to me. I love her dearly...yes, she is also a good friend, someone I can talk openly with if I want to.

Sophia Loren

Mothers Day, Mom, Good Friend

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The greatest trust between man and man is the trust of giving counsel.

Francis Bacon

Friendship, Men, Giving

Francis Bacon (2007). “Essays”, p.55, Cosimo, Inc.

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